This category has news about environmental issues that affect the Chesapeake Bay.
In response to recommendations of the majority of the members of Maryland’s Mute Swan Task Force, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will continue to reduce the Chesapeake Bay’s population of non-native mute swans. Because of the State’s successful … Continued
The State of Maryland will change the way it requires developers to prevent pollution at construction sites from running into local rivers and streams. The changes were call for by a coalition of environmental groups represented by the University of … Continued
The Trust for Public Land’s Parks for People-Community Rivers program in Maryland is focused on the western Chesapeake Bay shoreline and tributaries of the four major river systems-the Gunpowder, Patuxent, Patapsco, and Potomac. Working with government agencies at the local, … Continued
On April 7, 2009 the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) Executive Committee announced their agreement to identify a native-only restoration strategy as the preferred alternative in the final PEIS due to be published in late June. … Continued
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a letter of recommendation to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on March 18, 2009, stating the waterway proposed for use by vessel traffic associated with the AES Sparrows Point liquefied natural gas facility in Baltimore, … Continued